The route seems pretty straight forward

get the plank, go down for the lift key and spray

grab the rope, grab dora's key and dylan's lift key which are on the way up to Dora's hut

trade dora for crossbow, get the meat and feed it. then grab the gold

do EXTRA LIFE GAME and go past troll with gold

do DIZZY DOWN THE RAPIDS and get keg for pirate

grab portculls key on ship and do BUBBLE DIZZY

run to the mine, swap rope for wrench, and do MINECART RIDE

run to castle and do ARCHERY GAME

WIN

I don't think there is any reason to deny an emulated Android run.

I'm watching this video

Personally I would start on gaining control of dizzy, or more accurately the frame where the control arrows appear.

untimed

timing starts

For the end the first screen where the balloon appears would be the most sensible spot

There is a demo edition that came with Crash Magazine. You might be thinking of that https://yolkfolk.com/games/dizzy-special-edition/

You didn't actually say which version you were going to play on. I assumed you are talking about the Spectrum version :) Aside from colours and the screen border I think the Spectrum and Amstrad/CPC versions are identical. The version for Commodore 64 may be slightly different (and generally viewed to be worse)

I have a couple of tricks for the helmet that may or may not be necessary. First you can get the helmet without the bug spray. Just walk forward as you enter the room and as long as the spider moves smoothly you can jump over it to reach the helmet

You can also move the hat across the water by doing a couple of death jumps. The position is precise but it could be worth it to not have to carry the helmet down into the cave. Pair it up with collecting the Leprechaun wig for example

In that video i use a cheat code. press P to pause the game then type - nootrac4571 and that puts dizzy in exploration mode and you can use Z and X to move left and right and K and M to move up and down. Obviously not for use in a speedrun! but useful for practising and routing.

Don't be afraid of using your lives to save time, you should have plenty!

Hi great to see you have an interest in this game!

I think the easiest definition for a category like this is something like Destroy All Objects. Which would be easily defined as removing all possible things from the game.

So collect all eggs, use up every item (including the magnet), destroy the bridge to the forest, destroy the entrance to the caves with the Diamond, destroy the rocks with the pick axe etc.

Destroying the bridge and magnet is pretty simple.

And you don't even need to get the jump, as long as you enter from the right you will respawn on the correct side to finish the game. Obviously this would need to be planned for the end of the routing.

And as for destroying objects. IMO either you have to dump them like the magnet or have them destoryed by on the final use by leaving them free standing to interact with an 'enemy'. This shouldn't be too difficult imo.

As for things that are excluded because they cannot be reached. I have the list as

1. The egg and bat in the secret cave (this egg is obviously already skipped in the All Eggs category)
2. The spider under the steps on the way to Zaks
3. The spiders in the room below the magnet

The rain drop above the graveyard door can be easily reached.

Decent fix. But comments should be opt-in not opt-out.

otherwise you are relying on people turning off comments on their own or having mods go through and resubmit every run and turn off comments.

Comments were a terible idea. Everyone else can explain why in terms of harassment, bullying etc

But since anyone with any experience of community management would know that let me put it in terms you guys understand.

Comments are a threat to the continuing survival of SR.C. People do not want to deal with it. Communities are already organised off this site and are able and willing to move to another leaderboard site. You guys own nothing, your lock in is being the site that everyone uses. Once it is decided that everyone doesn't want to use this site it is finished.

If you want to have a viable website in ~6 months you should disable comments today.